Artist Gottfried Helnwein donated the painting to IKG.Kultur, the cultural arm of Vienna’s Jewish community, to raise funds ...
Ukraine’s Jewish refugees fleeing the Russian invasion have scattered around the world, including the U.S., Israel, Poland, Germany and Spain. Perhaps no community, though, was as well-suited to ...
One hundred thirty years ago, in 1895, the first Jewish museum in the world was opened in Vienna. The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at that time home to the third biggest Jewish community ...
(JTA) — Since the end of World War II, Vienna has functioned as an Ellis Island for Jewish refugees from Europe and the Middle East, a place where survivors, dissidents and religious minorities ...
A memorandum charging that Nazi-confiscated property belonging to Austrian Jews is not being returned to them and that Jews returning from concentration camps are being discriminated against by public ...
Vienna’s Jewish population will have only about 330 physicians and 100 dentists beginning with Oct. I, under regulations issued to enforce the recent decree for the purging of the medical profession.
The city of Vienna will tilt the statue of a former mayor known for being antisemitic 3.5 degrees to the right in order to shift the viewer’s “perspective on it,” a move that some Jewish leaders are ...
The Program in Judaic Studies, the Center for Collaborative History, and the Program in European Cultural Studies invite you to join us for this talk by Frances Tanzer on Thursday, October 30.